She remains in a state of full control throughout the album, and by album’s end it’s clear that Gaga has released one of her most dazzling albums to date.
Joanne, Artpop’s proper follow-up, contains no ham-fisted attempts at authenticity. Instead, Gaga tries to find a middle ground between her sophisticated present and glitzy, electropop past.
Gaga isn’t naked on Joanne, but she has stripped off the flank steaks and AutoTune. The result is a work that may not close any circles, but instead start the pattern of a new shape: something weird, but compelling, and largely authentic.
A pop album with a capital P, when Gaga talked about stripping back, she obviously meant doing away with the pretensions- Joanne is, unmistakably, still a slick operation.
Gaga hasn’t sounded this alive and believable since Born This Way, and Joanne has much more of a personality than that record.
Joanne is not as brazen and bold as it could have been, but it’s merely a temporary beat in the timeline of an artist who’s earned the right to stray down a path, be it a disco-lit runway or a dusty road ... With Lady Gaga, it’s never a question of “why,” but “why not?”
Where previous Gaga albums were high-wire acts, Joanne is decidedly earth-bound, a record made by an artist determined to execute only the stunts she knows how to pull off.
She may flit from one musical style to another, rather like Madonna has always done, but she never gives anything less than total commitment. The less is more production suits her, and for a first time we get a real and lasting glimpse of Stefani herself.
Joanne is Lady Gaga's best album in five years, since the disco-stick hair-metal manifesto that was Born This Way.
‘Joanne’ is certainly not the all-conquering opus it was intended to be and will prove divisive, but it remains a daring and exciting record, delivered from one of modern pop’s most unique and singular voices.
Nobody wants to immediately recognize herself in Gaga’s aesthetic; we want her to suggest a path we hadn’t thought of before, to nurture and clarify a beauty we didn’t even realize was there. Joanne feels too self-conscious, an affront to the Gaga of yesteryear—the truest self, after all, isn’t always the quietest.
This ... effort effectively abandons the electropop dance arrangements of Artpop in favour of more stolidly rockist fare, as if pursuing rock’n’roll authenticity. And to a certain extent it works.
Joanne stumbles a bit, and will be received with bafflement by everyone other than hardcore Little Monsters, but you can’t help admiring her boldness.
At times, she commits to her theme too literally: a track called 'John Wayne' (groan) is about ditching boring city guys for 'blue collar' dudes from Republican states. But 'Joanne' also contains some of Gaga's most tender songwriting.
A dearth of memorable melodies makes Joanne's restlessness often feel aimless.
Intentionally overwrought, brash, and totally different to anything she’s ever done before, Lady Gaga’s ‘Joanne’ doesn’t quite nail the artistic frankness she’s aiming for.
With producers Mark Ronson and Blood Pop on deck, the songs sound expertly crafted. The melodies are simple and give Gaga plenty of room to show off vocally, but the country bar throwback vibe feels staid and conservative.
Em "Joanne" encontramos Lady Gaga mais intimista, após toda a polêmica do "ARTPOP" e seus projetos paralelos, Gaga começou a trabalhar num álbum mais pessoal e íntimo. Além de ser seu segundo nome, "Joanne" também é o nome da tia falecida da cantora, da qual ela nunca chegou a conhecer, e ela dedicou esse disco à tia Joanne colocando o nome dela no disco.
Em seu lírico, ela abordou sobre ... read more
rainha do rock, country, pop e do mundo!!!!!
Favorites:Diamond Heart, A-YO, John Wayne and Come to Mama.
Diamond Heart - 9
A-YO - 7
Joanne - 8
John Wayne - 8
Dancin' in Circles - 8
Perfect Illusion - 8
Million Reasons - 9
Sinner's Prayer - 8
Come to Mama - 9
Hey Girl - 10
Angel Down - 10
Grigio Girls - 7
Just Another Day - 9
After ARTPOP, her reputation was kinda not the best and even though this isn’t her strongest album, at the time, this felt like a change in the right direction for her, like she knew exactly what she was doing when she made this. This album and her Sound of Music performance led to other big things like Super Bowl national anthem, A Star Is Born and the Super Bowl half time rebuilt her reputation and made her the icon and legend she is today. This album was the start of that and show ... read more
1 | Diamond Heart 3:30 | 81 |
2 | A-YO 3:27 | 74 |
3 | Joanne 3:16 | 82 |
4 | John Wayne 2:54 | 82 |
5 | Dancin' in Circles 3:27 | 75 |
6 | Perfect Illusion 3:02 | 82 |
7 | Million Reasons 3:25 | 86 |
8 | Sinner's Prayer 3:43 | 74 |
9 | Come to Mama 4:14 | 69 |
10 | Hey Girl 4:15 feat. Florence Welch | 73 |
11 | Angel Down 3:49 | 77 |
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